Powerschool at TAS!
At a recent faculty meeting, our director announced that Taipei American School would be investing and switching over to Pearsons Powerschool. After years of the OLC, Homeworknow, EasyGradePro, and many GoogleSites and Docs, it will be nice to have all of these functions in one place.
Power school has many benefits, and a few of these include:
- Better communication between parents, students, and teachers
- Parents can check grades and homework assignments
- Will build better relationship between home and school
- Students will be more organized and informed
- Allows faculty to make timely decisions
The bottom line… students will benefit the most! I’m extremely excited to add this program to our school. Though there will be a learning curve, it’s truly another example of how technology is making our lives easier, more effective, and more efficient. Can’t wait!
With our next next COETAIL class on December 11th, 2010, I’m excited to hear from our instructor, Jeff Utecht, how Powerschool works at ISBangkok and how it will help us here at TAS.
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I am also very interested to see how this impacts teaching and learning. In the digital age, there seems to be no reason to keep information from students and parents. After all, it’s much easier to respond when we know exactly where we stand.
PowerSchool unfortunately will not replace GDocs/OLC and HomeworkNow.
Hi, I am a member of the coetail at ISB. ISB has been using powerschool for almost two years and I think it is a powerful tools for communicating with parents and students. Since we started, parents can contact us any time they have any doubt about the grade and assignment. As a teacher, you can also put necessary information that you would like parent to know about their child. It is a great tool.
Varin